The Author's POV

"Thank you."

Amanda replied with a soft smile as she heard Ren's words.

Directly coming out of her own match she was quite tired, however, thinking back at her own mother's situation, she quickly discarded all of her tiredness and chose to visit Ren.

Aside from the fact that she wanted to make sure he was okay, she also wanted to see if he could help her.

Amanda understood her situation well.

She knew that her mother's situation was dire, and she also knew that if she did nothing the problem wouldn't solve itself.

Instead of keeping the problem to herself, she took it upon herself to try asking for help, and the first person that came to her mind was Ren.

She did also think about asking Kevin, but she felt more comfortable asking Ren first.

Even though she was comfortably around Kevin, she felt more at peace when she was around Ren.

Furthermore, having talked to him, Amanda knew that he had just come back from the dwarven domain. She also knew that his relationship with them was good, and therefore, after carefully thinking things through she decided to ask him if he had a way to solve the mind-breaker curse.

Her hopes were low, but nevertheless, it wouldn't hurt asking.

Sitting down, placing both of her hands on her laps, Amanda took a good look at the place before her eyes suddenly paused on a small black cat sitting by the edge of the window.

"Pudding?"

She called out in surprise. A flood of memories suddenly flashed through her head as the surprise in her eyes grew only bigger.

'How is she here?' She thought at first, but after that, staring at her fluffy fur, her right hand instantly twitched as she had a sudden urge to pet her.

However, the moment Amanda's words faded, pudding's body suddenly twitched as the room froze for a second before a wry smile appeared on Ren's face.

Scratching the back of his head, Ren forced a laugh before scooching his body away from pudding.

"Haha, yes, it's pudding."

He turned his head to look away from her.

Amanda tilted her head once she saw this, but recalling the purpose of her visit, she stopped paying attention to pudding and cleared her throat.

"Keum…keum…"

Her soft coughs rang through the room, attracting Ren's attention. Sensing the shift in Amanda's mood, he sat up straight.

"What's wrong?"

Brushing her hair behind her ear, Amanda softly said.

"...Do you remember the conversation we were having back at the tournament stands?"

"Tournament stands?"

Placing his hand on his chin, a thoughtful look appeared on his face as he tried his best to recall the previous conversation he had with her.

As he was thinking, gazing at him from where she was sitting, Amanda took a good look at him.

'He's changed.'

she had to say something, it was that the

chiseled out, but so was his body which previously used to

cheeks heated up forcing

not last for long as Ren's loud voice echoed throughout every corner of

mentioned something about

quickly

Amanda nodded her

"Yes."

happen

proceeded to ask before he raised his head

was here, but I don't see her

action caught Amanda off-guard as she couldn't help but smile at his actions. The way he was moving his head around to look for her mother

But it was because of such things that she

long as the smile soon wiped away from

"...She's sick."

moving. Following this,

Leaning forward, he asked.

I may ask, what happened to

herself

started to recount to him everything that had happened not too long ago with

place, to how she told her about the situation with her mother, and how she had saved the queen's life. As she spoke, she made sure to not miss out a single

place, I saw my mother resting inside of a large capsule. Although she didn't look exactly like in my memories, I

every word that Amanda spoke, the heaviness in her chest slowly started to lift

felt as though a heavy burden had been lifted away from her, making her

that my mother is currently under the mind breaker curse and that if nothing is done, she will forever be trapped in

finally finished recounting everything. With her head lowered she had a bitter look on

fist,

don't know anything about my current situation and that I'm probably adding to your burdens, but I'm glad you listened

bitter and sad smile soon appeared

venting session. From the beginning, she never placed much hope in Ren being able to have a solution to her problem, but

her head up and preparing herself to leave, her body suddenly froze when she saw Ren's

***

"This..."

back

led to her finding out that her mother was alive, I really couldn't help but be

was such

my mind. Moreover, what was even more shocking was the fact that I didn't know of such

'Was it purposely left out by the entity?' I thought to myself as

this matter into consideration. As far-fetched as it was, the possibility of it biting

important. Focusing my attention back towards Amanda who looked extremely

of a way to cure

"Huh?"

she stood up in shock and looked at me with eyes filled with a mixture

"Really?"

a voice filled with hope. I nodded

"Yes, I do."

to the past when I went to Immorra with Kevin to collect the cure, I would've never thought that I would

that I think about it, wasn't there someone that was

why Kevin went to Immorra was to collect the Xurin fruits in order to heal someone from the mind-breaker curse. Was that someone Amanda's mother?

together, Kevin went to Immorra when he was ranked, and the timing perfectly coincided with the current timing...was I missing